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You were steps away in that tent when it happened. Did you know in the moment that it was a gunshot? Yes. And and I, I had worried about this, Megan, even long before this date. And I always, I always said to myself, if I'm ever with Charlie and they're and they take a shot at him, what am I going to do? Because I like, I was in the Navy. In the Navy, you, you always, as as all military, you always have emergency procedures. You think about stuff before it happens and you decide before it happens. So you don't even have to think when it happens.
So when the shot, when I heard the shot, the first thing I thought was go to Charlie, but his security detail was right there, Megan. And so I took two steps toward Charlie. I was maybe 25 ft off his left elbow, right elbow, sorry. And uh, I started heading toward him. And then the security team was there. And so, okay, we got Charlie. So then I ducked thinking, "Okay, there's going to be more shots." And they went out one side behind the tent. I went out the other side and started running with them to the car.
And um, we had this SUV lined up, the SUV we took in, the one you just saw in that that film clip a couple minutes ago. And uh, they got him on the right side of the car. They, they opened the back door and and kind of drugg him in. And I couldn't get in either door. So I popped the gate open and got in the back and climbed over the seat. And so his uh, his Justin was driving. Dan, his main security guy, had the GPS in the passenger seat. Rick, right to my left, was on the headside of Charlie. He was dragging him across the seat and Brian was in to my right where the door was. And Charlie, as you know, Megan, 6'4, so too tall. We couldn't close the door. Just go, go. Let's go. So, we just started driving and it's not an emergency vehicle. There's no sirens. There's no lights. There's, we're just beeping the horn and I don't know how Brian stayed in the car cuz we're just yanking and banking trying to get to this this hospital that's like a little over four miles way.